John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social Research and comms for a democratic economy, plus selling radical books @redemmas.org.
Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social Parallelgesellschaftslobbyistin, u.a. bei Forensic Architecture und Diaspora Alliance. Laut ZEIT, leider unbelegt, "eine im postkolonialen Milieu bekannte Autorin". Beiruti for life
@chris-mcgowan-37.bsky.social @chris-mcgowan-37.bsky.social
Greta Krippner @gkrippner.bsky.social
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social General Counsel, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON).
Faculty, UCLA Labor Studies Department
Follower of @marjoriegarcia.bsky.social
Vituperative tweeter w/ a gentle heart
Greg Loring-Albright (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social gloringalbright.com
Game designer (Ahoy, 2022; Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, 2022 w/ T.L. Simons; Keep the Faith, 2026).
Asst.Prof. Game Studies & Game Design @HarrisburgU
Brian Gocial @briangocial.bsky.social Grandson of Holocaust Survivors (גאטשל-רוס, Poland 🇵🇱 ), Son of Immigrants (Sweden 🇸🇪-Cuba 🇨🇺), 1G American (Philly 🦅 🇺🇸). Watching the world crumble, again.
Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social Professor of Chemistry
University of Chicago
Single-Atom Skeletal Editing
Husband, Dad, Crossword Addict
http://levingroup.uchicago.edu
According to at least one colleague:
"clinging to the past"
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
Solidarity Union Network (SUN) @sununion.org Workers coming together to build unions that we lead and operate and that seek fundamental change
Pre-launch, but in motion
No compromise in defense of trans, POC, and immigrant co-workers
Let's go!
Stuff going on at work? We're here: sununion.org
dgorganize (he/him) @dgorganize.bsky.social Building unions @sununion.org; Unions of Our Own out now (Haymarket): unionsofourown.org; co-author Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law and Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks (PM Press)
Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social Pursuing an M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary | Ph.D., History, University of Michigan (2026) | PC(USA) Inquirer | Modern Europe & Iran | Reformed systematic theology, Karl Barth, New Testament studies
🌐 www.keanuheydari.com
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social Exec. dir., Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (@critzstudies.bsky.social).
Out now: The Anti-Defamation League & the Racial State (UC Press, 2026) at bit.ly/ucpress-gelman, discount code UCPSAVE30!
Writing & podcasts at emmaiagelman.com.
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Just walking along the edges of meaning
Benjamin Shestakofsky @bshestakofsky.bsky.social Sociologist @cornellbowers.bsky.social studying work, technology, organizations, and political economy | Author of Behind the Startup: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/behind-the-startup/paper
Hayden Rooke-Ley @hayrook.bsky.social Senior Fellow @Brown_SPH + @econliberties. Formerly @StanfordLaw @AledadeACO @WaysMeansCmte.
Kate Wilson @katekatewilson.bsky.social Historian of culture, care, class and the city. Research Associate, Newcastle University.
Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/)
@melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social
Sindhu Sundar @sssindhu.bsky.social comms @labornotes.bsky.social, Insider Union and Law360 Union forever- M @martinroth.bsky.social @martinroth.bsky.social
Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org Yale faculty and instructional staff organizing for academic freedom, shared governance, and a university that serves truth, knowledge, and the public good. Visit aaupyale.org to learn more and join the movement!✊🎓
Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Jack Copley @jackcopley.bsky.social Teach & research international political economy at Durham University.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/ykvf98wn
@emilyremensperger.bsky.social @emilyremensperger.bsky.social
Walter P. Reuther Library @reutherlibrary.bsky.social The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs inspires academic research, serves community, and builds knowledge at Wayne State University. Learn more at https://reuther.wayne.edu/.
Kelly Goodman @kelgoodman.bsky.social Teacher educator and adjunct prof in PA. Historian of teachers’ unions, school finance, and my students’ interests; currently: immigration and ethnicity, school security/safety & disability #EduSky
Sam Adler-Bell @samadlerbell.bsky.social writing / podcasting
https://www.patreon.com/c/knowyourenemy
https://samadlerbell.substack.com/
Laura Weiss @lauralew105.bsky.social Writer covering social issues especially health justice, disability, immigration & labor mostly for Prism Reports and New Republic. Editor at IndyKids. Forever NACLA. I also have a TV newsletter and beloved cat. She/her. Website: Lauraweiss.me
Lukas Moe @lukasmoe.bsky.social Organizing with AAUP
Scholarship on poetry and poetics
https://substack.com/@lukasmoe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7x8n5k
https://independent.academia.edu/MoeLukas
UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social The UChicago chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Fighting for democracy and academic freedom since 1915. uchicagoaaup.org
Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social US historian at Boston College. Author of CRACKED FOUNDATIONS: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America (Penn Press, 2025): https://tinyurl.com/yc5evxeh
Noah Madoff @noahmadoff.bsky.social Workers’ rights, law, &c.
Rachel Galvin @racheljgalvin.bsky.social 🌿 Poetry | Translation | Latinx Lit 🌿
Aaron Bekemeyer @abekemeyer.bsky.social Historian and teacher
NYU
American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social Join the search for The American Worker. Kevin Van Meter: author, labor educator, union organizer, PhD. Books at @akpress.org & @commonnotions.bsky.social. Inquiry via @workinquirywork.bsky.social & workersinquiry.work. Writings at readingstruggles.info.
Long-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social Long-Haul is a quarterly magazine of worker writing
Joanna Fiduccia @joannafiduccia.bsky.social asst. prof in the history of art at Yale | writing about modernism, attention, automatism, ornament | Figures of Crisis: Alberto Giacometti and the Myths of Nationalism (Yale UP 2026)
Elizabeth Heintges @heintgestae.bsky.social Postdoc/instructor at UChicago History; PhD in Classics, Columbia. Roman literature and history, ancient Sicily. Crossword enthusiast & devotee of bagels.
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
Justin Paulson @justin-paulson.bsky.social Director, Institute of Political Economy @ Carleton U. Aspiring fiddle player. Reluctantly returning to scrolling feeds.
Unions, Labor Relations and Class Struggle…As Seen On TV @solongdentalplan.com Coming April 2027 from SUNY Press. Multi-disciplinary collection exploring how labor unions, union organizing, and strikes and job actions have been portrayed in mainstream, scripted episodic television shows. https://solongdentalplan.com/
Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social Assoc. Prof at Uni Sussex working on libidinal & political economies of (liberal) war and violence in the 'colonial present'; Feminist, queer & anticolonial thought & struggles.
London | Aqueerius, middle-aged | she/her
Personal account
Natalie Behrends @behrendsn.bsky.social phd candidate in global history, harvard | historian of socialism, nationalism, and migration, 1848-1919
Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, welfare | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester
http://andrew-seaton.com
Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social Historian of Energy, Tech, & the Environment; Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; coauthor of ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS (2025) & TACONITE DREAMS (2015) Public & Oral History Practitioner
jeffmanuel.com
James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social Associate professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Tech). I study financial markets regulation & law of capitalism. But this ≠ IIT. DSA Fund board and treasurer 🌹🤝, Rstats, NLP, Phish dad, etc. Semper ubi sub ubi.
Agata Troost @agatatroost.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher @ Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; spatial inequality, social class, neighbourhood effects, social reproduction theory
See agatatroost.com for publications
Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social Cambridge, MA
Jonathan Wyrtzen @jonathanwyrtzen.bsky.social Studying empire, colonialism, decolonization, nation, collective identity, state formation, non-state political orders, Middle East / North Africa; Global Texas; sociologist and historian. Latest book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War
Ben Laurence @agentsofchange.bsky.social Author of Agents of Change. Political philosopher at UChicago who is obsessed with the relation of theory to practice. Currently working on the political theory of labor unions. https://benlaurence.net
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Becky Saletan @beckela.bsky.social Editorial director, Riverhead Books. Activist, Indivisible Harlem.
Simon Torracinta @simontorracinta.bsky.social lecturer at Harvard in History of Science / @haw-uaw.bsky.social
/ contributing editor @bostonreview.bsky.social / history of human sciences / STS / political economy
Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social Comedian union organizer writer dad Frisco. he/him https://linktr.ee/natogreen
Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social d@w produces media & live events to expose capitalism’s systemic problems & to show how democratizing our workplaces solves them. Co-founded by bsky.app/profile/profwolff.bsky.social
www.DemocracyAtWork.info
Miguel Martínez @fusonegro.bsky.social Historia cultural y memoria literaria. Otro pasado es posible. 'Las líneas del frente' y 'Comuneros. El rayo y la semilla, 1520-1521'.
T. منتظر @galleyprows.bsky.social ex-uchicago history, energy and environment @ exeter to come.
reading oil and maritime insurance in the indian ocean
Joe Thornton @joethorntonlab.bsky.social Evolutionary biochemistry at UChicago. Reconstructing ancient proteins.
Tom Fleischman @tomfleischman.bsky.social History @University of Rochester; environment, pigs, Germany; backyard pond tinkerer
Claire Dunning @cdunning.bsky.social Historian at UMaryland. Author of NONPROFIT NEIGHBORHOODS. I study the policy and politics of cities, nonprofits, philanthropy, and welfare.
Simon Balto @simonbalto.bsky.social Professor, author.
Steady with your hope now.
Nicholson Baker @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social Latest book: Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art. First book: The Mezzanine. https://linktr.ee/nicholsonbaker.
Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social Historian of labor, technology & Islam in South Asia | Asst. Prof UChicago SALC | she/her | 📕Pious Labor now out from UC Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pious-labor/epub-pdf
Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social Historian of modern U.S. || Author of YUPPIES (@harvardpress.bsky.social) II Co-host of @whomakescents.bsky.social II Rep'd by Alia Hanna Habib @thegernertco.bsky.social
Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social Carceral geographer, California apologist, Valued Customer™
Writing about incarceration, landscape, violence, and networks.
Read @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Danielle Wiggins @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social Historian at Georgetown | author of Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism (2025) | Aries | Stevie Wonder stan
Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Los Feliz / Iowa City
Brianna Suslovic, MSW @bsuslovic.bsky.social Critical/radical social work, social welfare/health policy, and abolitionist praxis. PhD candidate in Social Work at UChicago, yoga teacher, writer, psychoanalytic theory enthusiast.
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Presidential Perils @presidentialperils.bsky.social Tweeting out quotes by political scientist Juan Linz on the "Perils of Presidentialism" –- one constitutional crisis at a time
@zcurtisolsen.bsky.social @zcurtisolsen.bsky.social
Prof. Blackbird @blackbirdandthefox.bsky.social
Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social Anthropologist interested in hunter-gatherer egalitarianism | Asst Prof @BaylorAnthro.bsky.social | Editor-in-Chief, Hunter-Gatherer Research | Spelling errors my own
Eoghan Gilmartin @eoghangilmartin.bsky.social Journalist
Winner: European Press Prize 2024 - Special Award and the #IJ4EU Impact Award
Also co-host of @sobremesapod.bsky.social
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Sam Kuhn @samrkuhn.bsky.social Economist writing about the labor market on https://recruitonomics.com/ and #rstats fan
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social “woke” is “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”
- Ron DeSantis' attorney (finally got one right)
https://www.raceclasspodcast.com/
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social public interest law/policy/advocacy always. opinions and idealism all mine. 🔗 https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/leadership-in-government-fellowship
MarkGPearce @markgpearceadr.bsky.social Arbitrator, Artist, Educator- Lover of Labor Jazz & Justice - opinions mine only. Reposts not endorsements
Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social Economic sociologist, professor, University of California, Merced.
Research: Wall Street, Big Tech, oligarchs, elites, universities.
Bylines: NYT, WaPo, LAT.
Newsletter and website: https://www.charlieeaton.net
Simona Mila Capisani @simomila.bsky.social Climate politics, political/social & environmental philosophy, migration justice. Assistant Prof (Durham University, UK). Formerly postdoc @Princeton University HMEI & UCHV. PhD University of California, Irvine.
Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance, undercover officer infiltration | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate
joshuaclarkdavis.com
Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social History professor @ OU, views are my own. Author of Mastering Emotions, 2021. I write about slavery, emotions, & poison, I skeet about teaching, politics, & pop culture. She / hers. Proud union member. Live in Detroit but my heart is still in NOLA
Zaria El-Fil @dearzaria.bsky.social History PhD Candidate | Southern Borderlands | Slavery Studies | Bookstagram: @BlackademicReads
Raising Uptown @raisinguptown.bsky.social Urbanism, family life & raising independent, strong & free children
Advocates for a world improved via attention, community & effort
cassie willson @cassiewillson.bsky.social girl from internet
https://linktr.ee/casstherockwillson
Joe’s Ire @jgz.bsky.social Chicago shit | dumb shit | other shit
Adam Leeds @aeleeds.bsky.social Historicized philosophized anthropologist of the dreams and nightmares of democracy and its enemies and frenemies. Oh and the arts and culture.
Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social Union organizer | full-time thorn in your side | your loud queer aunt 🏳️🌈 she/her | itinerant Midwesterner | annameier.substack.com
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social Economic sociologist, PhD candidate, Wisconsin Badger, writing on: labor, elites, and economic development in the American South.
"Above this ridge, new peaks will rise"
https://dseel.github.io/
🌹🍉🦡
Peter Pihos @yumpizza.bsky.social Chief Pizza Officer
Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor.
Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press.
Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian.
She/her 🌈 | Personal account
Patricia de Vries @pattythefrost.bsky.social researcher, writer, educator focused on artistic and social practices that intervene in capitalist enclosures.
48.2 % doom scroller, 0.7% reposter, 51.1% liker
https://research.rietveldsandberg.nl/en/research+groups/art++spatial+praxis/